Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 32 - Tea Tree Gully & Modbury merge to make tenth SANFL team - 2014

[cannavo]

Welcome to …

Marty McFly has done himself a mischief and has altered the course of Aussie footy in ways you can't imagine!
Get ready to dive into alternate futures!​

What is “What If” Wednesdays?
"What if" Wednesdays was a competition comprised of real-life football team proposals, merger propositions, former teams and a few hypotheticals brought to life by the FJGD community (eg. If the Melbourne-Hawthorn merger went ahead, if University/Fitzroy/Bris Bears stuck around, if Gold Coasts nickname were the Lifesavers etc.) it became this boards longest running competition (8/9/14 – 29/5/19). It has been revived under a meme cultured spin-off! Time traveller sneezes memes are all about butterfly effects on various things caused by a time traveller altering the past by means of a simple sneeze.


What’s new this time around?
This time or these times around, we will be flung into various timelines where our universes former teams, mergers, relocation proposals never existed or had its outcome altered slightly or severely! The list below is comprised of alternate timelines and the butterfly effect caused by our cheeky time traveller. Your job is to envision this outcome! Each comp will run for 1 week and the poll will run for 3 days. The winner picks the next team from the list below.

There are some routes you can go by if you're stuck:

• The chosen team has entered their designated competition in the current year (unless specified) along with the current teams OR
• You may design kits at any point in time unless strictly specified OR
• Accompany your kits with a backstory on how the team came to be to help better envision the outcome OR
• Try using AI text to conjure up a scenario and AI images to envision potential concepts OR
• Use Google to search the history and stories behind what is being altered

Bare minimum for an entry is:

• A home kit with the front of the jumper showing
  (Back, shorts, socks are optional)
• OPTIONAL Away kit (Home with white shorts is acceptable)
• OPTIONAL 3rd kit
  • Clash kit
  • Heritage kit
  • Other kit
• OPTIONAL Club Logo (Highly Encouraged!)

Let’s see what has happened this time

Our Timeline: Adelaide Crows submit a reserves team to become the 10th SANFL team
Altered Timeline: Tea Tree Gully and Modbury merge to become the 10th SANFL team

PLEASE NOTE
This idea was listed as a new team by accident as this actually involves 2 football clubs instead of 2 locations coming together to form a new team. However, you may still go down that route if you like

Here are the 2 teams in question
Tea Tree Gully District Football Club: http://www.gullies.com.au/
Modbury Hawks Football Club: https://www.modburyhawks.com.au/

In a very subtle way, it's an Essendon + Hawthorn merger
Do visit the websites to have a better idea on what both clubs are sporting ​

Basic Rules (Read Carefully):

1. Kits and Logo must be in 1 picture (Makes polls easier to fit everything in)
2. The kits can consist of just a Jumper (Shorts and socks are encouraged to give a full identity effect)
3. Minimum 1 kit and there's no limit to how many kits you can include after that
   eg. Home and Away and/or Clash and/or Heritage and/or Others
   1. Designing a Home and away/clash kit is highly encouraged for that authentic feel and to develop that alternate universe experience
4. Attempt to stay close to the altered timeline
5. Directly copying current football team kits/logos are not allowed
6. Creating a logo is encouraged but you may take inspiration from and/or alter any existing sports logo to drive home your design.
7. Maximum 2 entries per person
8. Any questions at all, please ask!

Specific Category Rules:

New Teams Rule:

1. There are no restrictions. Well, the only thing I ask is there be no recolours of currently existing kits involving the team (where applicable)
   1. Variants are allowed

UPDATED Alternate timelines with categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Italics - Newly added

Mergers

• Melbourne - St Kilda merger (1995)
• Tasmania - Fitzroy Merger
• Sydney - Fitzroy Merger
• Gold Coast Suns seek merger with Sharks to stay alive
• Fitzroy - Brisbane (Fitzroy Bears)
• Tasmania agree to merger with North Melbourne
• Port Melbourne granted VFL licensed but only if they merge with Fitzroy
• Williamstown merge with Footscray – 1989
• Norwood / Port Adelaide AFL merger (1991)
• South Melbourne - Footscray merger
• South Melbourne and North Melbourne merger

Relocations

• Saints relocate to NZ
• Essendon relocate to NT to become Alice Springs
• Hawthorn relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Brisbane in the 80s (Prior to the Bears existing)
• South Melbourne relocate to Tasmania
• South Melbourne relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy complete move to North Sydney - 1980
• Footscray relocate to Queensland - 1981
• Fitzroy relocate to Perth - 1981
• GWS relocate to Canberra
• Melbourne relocate to Mars
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Fitzroy relocate to South Africa - 1997

League transfers

• West Coast Eagles to the SANFL
• Brisbane Bears to the SANFL
• Fitzroy to the SANFL - 1981
• Footscray to the SANFL - 1981
• Adelaide Uni to the SANFL - 1991 (cannot use only black and white)
• Collingwood to the SANFL - 1997
• East Perth to the VFL - 1980
• Norwood to the AFL
• Launceston to the AFL
• Essendon to the WAFL
• Perth to the AFL (Merger of Perth, East Perth & West Perth)
• Glenelg to the AFL - 1997
• Geelong West to the VFL - 1976
• Swan Districts to the AFL - 1991

New Teams

• Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
• Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
• Limestone Coast join the SANFL
• Mount Gambier join the SANFL
• Sydney enter as a separate team (Bloods stay in Vic)
• Darwin join the AFL - 1991
• Public Service Football Club join the VFL
• Gold Coast fold, new North Queensland team take their place - 2030
• NZ enter 90's State of Origin
• Broome become the 2nd WA AFL team
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Gold Coast hijack Brisbane Bears VFL entry - 1986
• Hobart to the AFL (Can't use Devils branding)
• Newcastle team to the AFL
• Southwest of WA to the AFL
• Tea Tree Gully & Modbury merge to make tenth SANFL team (2014)

Colour Corner

• West Coast Eagles VFL kits altered due to Williamstown sharing the same colours
• GWS keep their 'Team GWS' colours
• Port Adelaide retain their Magenta
• Adelaide's hurried concept
  (Adelaide board hastily attain clothes from local sport store and use the 5 colours to design their new AFL team)
• Fremantle keep Red & Green, remove Purple & White
• Williamstown join the VFL in 1925 - design a late '90s/early '00s clash/away guernsey for them (1995-2005)

Specials

• Hawthorn release Ochre jumper - 2000
• Skittle's sponsor Essendon and release special guernsey
• Heidelberg Warriors align with Collingwood for 1 season - 1996
• Melbourne remain as 'The Invincible Whites'
• Collingwood remain as 'Britannia'
• Carlton remain as 'The Cockatoos'
• Hawthorn remain as 'The Mayblooms'
• BigFooty becomes the majority stakeholder, and primary sponsor of Gold Coast, requesting a new jumper set with the deal

New Category - Cross-Code Craze

• Newcastle Knights to the VFL - 1988
• Cronulla Sharks to the AFL - 1998
• South Sydney Rabbitohs to the AFL

 

[cannavo]

Incorporating both team's design elements by taking Modbury's stripes, changing the middle one to red and rotating it to mimic TTG's sash. The 'Hawks' moniker was chosen over 'Wolves' to prevent any confusion with one of West Adelaide's monikers. Being the first amalgamated team in the North-East, it became the clubs new name. The 2 clubs previous jumper designs feature under the back of the collar

 

[KBLT]

 

[Mac Ropod]

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[Mac Ropod]

 

[Sam Hall]

After years of campaigning for league expansion it is decided the SANFL will admit it's first North Eastern suburbs team and it's second team north of Grand Junction road. Local powerhouses and firece rivals Modbury and Tea Tree Gully decide to re-merge for the first time in 150 years. Tea Tree Gully's red and black is out of the question because of clashes with West Adelaide, whilst a heritage concept is also out of the question due to clashes with Sturt. Instead of A gold/brown Hawks concept which only represents Modbury the clubs decide to form a new name and concept. The suburb of St Agnes is all that separates the suburbs of Modbury and Tea Tree Gully and it was a no brainer for club officials to name the new team the St Agnes Football Club.

 

[_Damo_]

 

[El_Scorcho]

Ooh, this is a very interesting one for me. I don't think i'll get time to enter but i've lived in the North East of Adelaide for all but a few years of my life, and I played football against both of these clubs.

The North East is definitely it's own distinct area, and it's the clearest gap in terms of SANFL club coverage, with juniors being funneled to either Norwood, which is in the heart of the eastern suburbs, or the Roosters which is in the inner North. Quite often to the uninitiated the North East is lumped in with the northern suburbs of Adelaide, which is Central Districts territory, but there is certainly a big divide culturally between the "down the hill" north and the "up the hill" north east.

I think the merged club would probably end up being called either Tea Tree Gully (because of the Tea Tree Gully council area that effectively makes up the North East), but given the long history of both clubs, a hyphenated name might be possible.

Look forward to seeing what people come up with!

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Having been in modbury hospital when a code brown was called (believe it was a bloke with a knife), i'm honestly surprised none of these kits have slash marks on em

 

[rabbitoh21]

Having been in modbury hospital when a code brown was called (believe it was a bloke with a knife), i'm honestly surprised none of these kits have slash marks on em

Slightly misleading name for that code but anywho

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Slightly misleading name for that code but anywho

Haha, shit hey

 

[cannavo]

Righto, had a bit of a health related absence, I'll get the poll up soon